Cousine

mono400 · 700· Apache-2.0

Size56pxWeight

mcpConnect your agent — pair Cousine live

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared fonts endpoint and your agent can search this exact catalog and suggest pairings — list_fonts and suggest_fonts, read-only, no key.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/fonts/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-fonts https://mcp.brandsweets.com/fonts/mcp

try this prompt

›find me a heading font that pairs with Cousine

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A free alternative to

Courier (Courier New)#2 · curated

Cousine ranks in the top three free, open-licensed alternatives to Courier (Courier New) on our published similarity score. Commercial names identify the typeface only; we never host them.

Pairs well with

Open Sans

sans300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800

Steve Matteson · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Roboto

sansroboto100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Christian Robertson, ParaType, Font Bureau · Apache-2.0

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Inter

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Rasmus Andersson · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Lato

sans100 · 300 · 400 · 700 · 900

Łukasz Dziedzic · OFL-1.1

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fits body; generous x-height for body; hand-vetted

Montserrat

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, Jacques Le Bailly · OFL-1.1

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fits heading; hand-vetted

Poppins

sans100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Indian Type Foundry, Jonny Pinhorn, Ninad Kale · OFL-1.1

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fits heading; hand-vetted

More mono fonts

Roboto Mono

monoroboto100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700

Christian Robertson · OFL-1.1

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Source Code Pro

monosource200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Paul D. Hunt · OFL-1.1

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Inconsolata

mono200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Raph Levien · OFL-1.1

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JetBrains Mono

mono100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800

JetBrains, Philipp Nurullin, Konstantin Bulenkov · OFL-1.1

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IBM Plex Mono

monoibm-plex100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700

Mike Abbink, Bold Monday · OFL-1.1

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DM Mono

monodm300 · 400 · 500

Colophon Foundry · OFL-1.1

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Self-host embed

Cousine is free to self-host under Apache-2.0. Drop these @font-face rules into your CSS — the .woff2 files are served straight from BrandSweets.

css

@font-face {
  font-family: "Cousine";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/cousine/cousine-400.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cousine";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/cousine/cousine-400i.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cousine";
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/cousine/cousine-700.woff2") format("woff2");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cousine";
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
  src: url("https://fonts.brandsweets.com/cousine/cousine-700i.woff2") format("woff2");
}

/* Usage */
.heading { font-family: "Cousine", monospace; }

License & attribution

License: Apache-2.0
Weights: 400, 700
Languages: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, greek-ext, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese

Machine-readable: font.md

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